While living with her old-fashioned great-aunts in a small Australian town, twelve-year-old Sarah makes an unlikely friend, learns something about the amazing Piriel Starr, and breaks the habit of a lifetime
Analysis
Australian
Notes
%Children aged 10-14
Audience
Children aged 10-14
Notes
Festival Awards for Literature (SA), National Children's Award, 1998
Honour Book BILBY Awards, Older Readers, 1999
Short listed Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year, Younger Readers, 1998